ELECTRONICS at NICADD

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ELECTRONICS at NICADD
October 8, 2003

• Manuel I. Martin
• for
• NICADD

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Tasks in progress

• Procuring a new (working) PQ2A
• Testing CMS Pre Amplifier
• Designing a Faraday Cage/Dark Box
• Procuring miscellaneous parts (transistors,
  resistors, etc.)
• Designing Current/Charge Pre Amplifier with
  integrated threshold detection
• Designing threshold encoder
• Designing data transfer using time multiplexing

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Data Acquisition Block Diagram
CLK
Pre Amplifier
Threshold detector
Current Mirror
Differential Amplifier
Time Multiplexer
Current Mirror
Threshold detector
g to e
Encoder
Current Mirror
Threshold detector
Shaping?
Baseline Suppression?
To Buffers